5 Times WWE matches began with a Superstar not knowing the finish

#4 The APA vs. The Public Enemy (WWE Sunday Night Heat)

Best known for their ECW run in the 1990s, it is fair to say that things did not exactly go according to plan for The Public Enemy in WWE.

Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock only competed in seven televised matches during their short-lived WWE run in early 1999, with their most famous match coming against the APA (Bradshaw and Farooq) on WWE Sunday Night Heat.

The match was supposed to end with the APA picking up the victory after putting one of the Public Enemy members through a table. However, as Bradshaw (aka JBL) recalled on Corey Graves’ After The Bell podcast in October 2020, the former ECW stars brought up an issue with the finish just seconds before their music hit.

“They said, ‘That spot with the table, we don’t want to do that.’ And I said, ‘That’s the finish, guys.’ And they said, ‘Yeah, yeah, we don’t want to do that.’ Well, their music’s playing. They walk out. Ron [Ron Simmons, aka Farooq] goes, ‘What was that about?’ I said, ‘They don’t want to do the finish.’ Ron said, ‘Well, they don’t want to do the finish? We’ll take the finish to them.’”

With uncertainty surrounding the finish, the APA took matters into their own hands by having 100 percent of the offense against their uncooperative opponents.

In the end, WWE referee Jimmy Korderas stepped in and ruled that the match could no longer continue.